Mod Post. 5/3/19

[awashmods]

Hello everyone, and welcome to May's monthly mod post! Please be sure to read all of this post.

Mechanics

• First off, AC has completed and has been processed. AC is now open for May. May's AC Post can be found here.
  
  
• Applications are currently open! There are plenty of slots, so invite your friends to come play!
  

Plot

• The trees haven't ended up coming any closer as of yet, but they still loom alarmingly close. The event may be over, and characters may have recovered, but if any characters chop down or otherwise harm a tree from the woods, they will suffer from similar effects to the event. In other words, they'll lose some of their emotion for a brief period of time!
  
• Characters will also note, if they do enough of it, that they are drawn towards the woods the more emotion they lose. If a character ends up totally apathetic, they'll end up wandering into the woods alarmingly often, as if subconsciously. Weird.
  
  
• If characters happen to find the trees that were given color in the woods from characters completing quests last month (there are not many of them!) and decide to chop them down for some reason (:(), they will find that they do not experience any side effects at all. It's only chopping down the colorless trees that causes the side effects above.

Quests

• Quests for May are now up! The OOC breakdown of said quests can be found below, as with last month. All quests have been posted ICly to the Quest Forum Post. Only quests for this month can be turned in for a reward.
  
  
• The Quest Reporting comment can be found here. As ever, please respond to that comment once the quest itself has been completed. When reporting the quest, please state what quest it is in the subject line; we've realized that that helps us a lot with keeping track over the past few months!
  
  
• Please be aware that Quests must be reported by the end of the month; this is because we use what quests are completed to keep track of what colors are restored for the next month!

Color Changes/Rewards

This month’s color changes are as follows (color changes can be tracked at the Color Timeline):

Color Gains:

• For completing all of the quests last month, characters have restored the color of soil. The ground around the Town will start to seem much richer. Likewise, they'll find that the colors below can be found quite a lot around the Town.
  
  
• If your character has a color log thread from the month of April, please go here to submit a thread! After that, the mods will let you know what color that thread has restored.

Color Losses:

• From drops: Red cabbage, eclairs, popcorn, library outer walls, flan, chimera, harpies, blue crab, frost, cilantro, bunnies, mongoose, cucumbers, hummingbirds, cobwebs, cornbread, town hall roof, ginger, burnt toast, marshmallows, string lights, angora bunnies, tomatoes, seagulls, pie tins, laurel wreaths, starfish, shoelaces, sea eagles, boysenberries, caramel, golden rings, golems, wrapping paper, candy canes, town hall ceiling, sheet music, rice, barn owls, scarves, sweet potatoes, library chairs

If there are any questions, please ask them here, so that we don’t miss any. Thank you, everyone!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[awashmods]

[theshowsover]

Quick question for quest 56, for rewards: does it matter who is showing loyalty and who is having loyalty shown to them? I've gotten a couple requests for this quest and I don't want to accidentally screw anyone out of rewards haha, so I wanted to be sure people showing Akira loyalty could still get rewards even if he's already participated in the quest twice.

[alittlespicy]

I have two questions!

Would making something out of the restored-colored trees give that something interesting qualities? (Like carving, etc)

And re quest 56, would it work if A displays loyalty for B in front of C, and then B learns later?

[noholdsbard]

Any update from the Defense Force/player resource stuff? I was kind of avoiding having it come up ICly, but with a new batch of newbies coming our way it might be best to get it resolved quickly, even if it means a definite end to the Defense Force.

QUEST REPORTING

[awashmods]

Please only respond to this comment when the quest has been completely threaded out, whether a success or failure! Please respond in this format:

Please put the quest being completed into the subject line! <b>Characters Involved:</b> <b>Character Colors:</b> <b>Link to thread:</b> <b>Failure/Success:</b>

Quest 56

[youwillbeunequaled]

Characters Involved: Tonbokiri and Archer (Tristan)
Character Colors: Yellow #FFBF00 and Blue #6363F9
Link to thread: Here you are!
Failure/Success: A nearly tear-jerking success!

Quest 59

[noholdsbard]

Characters Involved: Xie Lian and Tristan
Character Colors: Blue
Link to thread: Here!
Failure/Success: Success! It might have been an accident, but Camelot fell a second time that day.

Quest 57

[lacrimose]

Characters Involved: Akira and Ryo
Character Colors: Red
Link to thread: Here!
Failure/Success: Failure. Ryo killed the manticore to protect Akira, oops.

Quest 58

[youwillbeunequaled]

Characters Involved: Tonbokiri and Keigo Asano
Character Colors: Yellow #FFBF00 and Blue #AED6F1
Link to thread: Here you are!
Failure/Success: Fail. They literally walked away from even the potential of success. (Word your quests better, Mr. White! ;;)

Quest 56

[artorian]

Characters Involved: Artoria, Magilou
Character Colors: blue and red
Link to thread: it's like the first bit only and the rest is fluff
Failure/Success: Success!

quest 56!

[regrede]

Characters Involved: sierra mikain, kyrie
Character Colors: yellow, yellow
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: failure! a miserable failure both ways, actually, because they were being insincere.

quest 58

[pyrafect]

Characters Involved: pyra and damian
Character Colors: blue and blue
Link to thread: bloop
Failure/Success: Success! Thanks to Damian, they added blood and made a red stone.

quest 56

[pyrafect]

Characters Involved: tristan and Pyra
Character Colors: blue and blue
Link to thread: bloop
Failure/Success: Success! Well, it started out as an apology thread from Pyra because of the last event, but then it turns into basically them promising that they'll do right by each other. Also Mythra gives him a quest, and he takes an oath to fulfill it haha.

quest 56

[pyrafect]

Characters Involved: pyra/mythra and akira
Character Colors: blue and red
Link to thread: bloop
Failure/Success: Success! Akira meets Mythra. Mythra reinforces that what Pyra had told him waaaaaaaaaay back in the beginning when they first met-- that they don't have to be alone anymore-- and Akira pulls her into a hug.

Quest 57

[youwillbeunequaled]

Characters Involved: Tonbokiri and Berkut
Character Colors: Yellow and Red
Link to thread: Here!
Failure/Success: Success! ...Just barely. There's one very wounded and angry manticore out there now.

quest 59

[pyrafect]

Characters Involved: Berkut and Pyra
Character Colors: Red & Blue
Link to thread: Bloop
Failure/Success: We're.... not sure if this counts! Anyway, after last months' events Pyra attempt to reconcile with Berkut and apologize to him for her actions and words, when she lost her emotions. Berkut staunchly refuses, and he basically tells her to get lost and breaks bond (of budding? friendship?) they had formed; he wants nothing to do with her. An alternative interpretation would be that Pyra has broken Berkut's trust completely.

Quest 56

[theshowsover]

Characters Involved: Akira and Lupin
Character Colors: Red and Red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: Success! Akira expressed a show of loyalty to Lupin.

quest 56

[doublecrowss]

Characters Involved: Goro Akechi, Akira Kurusu
Character Colors: Red (#90014 and #EA0000)
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: Success! They have both promised to trust and be loyal to each other, and mutually reached Rank 10 in their Confidant route.

quest 59!

[passio]

Characters Involved: dextera, akira fudo
Character Colors: blue, red
Link to thread: here!
Failure/Success: success! akira destroyed a ring of dextera’s and then hacked it up like a hairball.

quest 58!

[passio]

Characters Involved: ryo asuka, dextera
Character Colors: red, blue
Link to thread: behold!
Failure/Success: success!

COLOR RESTORATION

[awashmods]

Use the form below if you'd like to submit a thread from the month of April from your color log!

<b>Characters involved</b>: <b>Character Hexcodes:</b> <b>Link to Color Log:</b>

[noholdsbard]

Characters involved: Tristan & Nero
Character Hexcodes: #6363F9 & #DC2916
Link to Color Log: Here!

QUEST 56

[awashmods]

Show a deep display of loyalty.

Requirements: Any Colors.

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Find someone and show them your true dedication to them. Either through physical or verbal means, make sure they know the depth of your feeling. Family members, friends, mentor/mentees -- show that this person is someone you've dedicated your life to in some way and want them to know their place in your heart.

The form this expression can take is very varied, so feel free to be creative!

Ways to succeed: The other person knows how you feel now! You've exposed your heart just a little bit more to them and they've accepted it. Good job!

Ways to fail: If the other person misunderstands your feeling or the feelings aren't actually sincere, it won't count.

Limit: 2 per character

Link to Quest Post.

QUEST 57

[awashmods]

Fight off the manticore.

Requirements: 1 red.

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Go deep into the forest and find the manticore's lair. Wait for it to attack you. Fight it. Try not to die. Manticores are pretty nasty, and this one has plenty of fight in it -- but it's all physical threats. Lion head, scorpion tail and poison, sharp teeth, and the ability to shoot spikes... but no nasty magic tricks or anything. At least it's straightforward.

Ways to succeed: If you're able to fend it off and escape, hooray!

Ways to fail: Do NOT kill the manticore. Killing it will auto-fail the quest, not that the quest is very clear about that. Rude, quest. Also, naturally, do NOT die.

Limit: 1 per character

Link to Quest Post.

QUEST 58

[awashmods]

Find and retrieve the Philosopher's Stone

Requirements: 1 blue.

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Surely you can succeed where every philosopher and alchemist ever has failed? Surely. Anyway, the philosopher's stone is naturally something with a great deal of meaning. It's supposed to be able to turn metal to gold, to cause immortality. And something like that isn't very easy to obtain.

But here's the deal -- if you go out into the woods adventuring with someone else, you'll eventually stumble across what looks to be a cauldron and a bunch of implements for alchemy. You can go as simple or as dramatic as you'd like... but naturally, you're going to have to do some alchemy to make this happen.

The ingredients, though? Well, those are all on you. Go fetch animal parts and precious stones and things. Mix 'em all together, and you'll get...some outcome. It might be randomized from here, or you can send us a list of items and we'll let you know what they make... but it probably won't be a philosopher's stone.

In order to make a philosopher's stone? They naturally have to use some of their own blood, and the blood of their partner. Unfortunately, in the end, they're just party trick toys and don't actually have any real magical abilities, but hey, they look cool.

Ways to succeed: Make a philosopher's stone. Easy, right? (So long as the blood of both people are involved, it'll probably work. Maybe.)

Ways to fail: Anything else is definitely a solid failure.

Limit: 3 per character

Link to Quest Post.

QUEST 59

[awashmods]

Destroy something that belongs to someone else.

Requirements: Any two colors.

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Not a shirt or a glass or something like that. Find something -- an item from home, something they've gained here, or even something intangible like a relationship between two other people -- and destroy it. It must be completely ruined by the time you're done with it.

Ways to succeed: The thing you've destroyed has no chance of coming back! It's gone forever! Yay!

Ways to fail: Come on, don't be wimpy about the destruction. Really destroy that thing.

Limit: Unlimited

Link to Quest Post.